"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture."
-- Pope Sixtus III

Butler’s speech resembled his style of play
during a nine-year career highlighted by 52 interceptions and countless
jaw-jarring blows. It wasn’t complicated. It was direct but
well-received by appreciative fans, some wearing his No.80 throwback
jersey.

Butler, who spent nearly 40 years as director
of the BLESTO scouting combine, thanked his family and friends, but
mostly his wife, Bernadette, for encouraging him after he surprisingly
made the Steelers’ roster in 1951.

“I have been very fortunate and have lot to be
thankful for,” Butler said. “I was born with a talent to play football.
I was fortunate to play in the great city of champions – Pittsburgh,
Pa.

“I never envisioned being here in Canton. This
induction is the highest honor I’ve achieved in my professional career.
I’m happy to have spent 50 years in a sport I love. I’m honored to be
included with these great players.”

Raymond Berry, a Hall of Fame receiver, remembered some memorable battles with Butler.

“He had great instincts for the football,”
Berry said. “So many players tried to emulate him. He had great
instincts for the ball. He was one of the best I had ever seen.”

Butler insisted on the eve of his induction
that he wouldn’t choke up – that he wouldn’t shed a tear. But he
couldn’t fight the feeling as he was ushered onto the stage one last
time to celebrate a career that ended more than a half century ago.

Mr. Butler played his college ball at St. Bonaventure in Olean, NY.

A reflective Butler seemed somewhat relieved
that he had finally been summoned to the hallowed halls that welcomed
other Steelers greats such as Franco Harris, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert,
Jack Ham, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount.

Doleman and Dawson were near locks to make it
here. Martin wasn’t a sure shot to make it in the NFL but landed in
Canton, in part, because of his dogged persistence and durability.

Martin, overcome with emotion in revealing the
abuse his mother endured at the hands of his father, bared his soul to
an attentive crowd. It was far more compelling than the more than 14,000
yards he covered and 90 touchdowns he scored during an 11-year career.

“This has been an incredible roll for me,”
said Martin, who cried as he remembered the times he escaped death in
East Pittsburgh. “I feel a little awkward and out of place. I was
someone who was somewhat forced to play football. I remember my family
and I sitting around during the draft when Bill Parcells called.

“I told everyone in the room, I do not want to
play football,” he said, “and I don’t know if I like football enough to
make a career out of it.’

Martin’s pastor told him maybe football is something he would do for all those other people.

“If he hadn’t said that to me, I probably
wouldn’t have gotten out of football what I got out of it,” said Martin,
the first Jet to be enshrined since quarterback Joe Namath in 1985.” I
knew the love for the game wasn’t in my heart.”

Martin said he didn’t gain an appreciation for the game until he listened to Buffalo owner Ralph Wilson speech on Friday.

“Just the passion that Ralph Wilson has for
the game that rubbed off on me,” he said. “I felt it was the first day I
became a fan of football.”

“I was fortunate to be there for Curtis during
his developmental stages,” said former coach Bill Parcells, his
presenter. “My first impression was this was going to be our running
back. Our first game, we handed him the ball seven straight times.”

Doleman, presented by his son, Evan Doleman,
credited his Pitt coaches — Jackie Sherrill and Foge Fazio — for
pointing him in the right direction.

He, too, credited his parents.

“My dad didn’t like wasting money,” Doleman said. “That alone taught me about commitment. I finished the game I signed up for.”

Dawson succeeded Hall of Famer Mike Webster in the middle of the Steelers’ offensive line.

“Very few things are the work of one person,
and this is no exception,” said Dawson, who was presented by his high
school coach, Steve Parker. “I want to thank the great “Iron” Mike
Webster. Mike was a leader…and I tried to emulate everything he did.”

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Olympic 50km walk champion Alex Schwazer was excluded from the London Games on Monday after failing a doping test. "I made a mistake. My career is finished," Schwazer, who took gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, told the Italian news agency Ansa. "I wanted to be stronger for this Olympics, I made a mistake." The confirmation came after the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI ...

ROME (Reuters) - An unnamed Italian athlete in an unnamed sport has been excluded from the London Games after failing a doping test, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Monday. A CONI statement said the body had received "an adverse result from an anti-doping test previously arranged by the World Anti-Doping Agency". The statement said the athlete had not yet arrived in London ...

LONDON - Olympic
competition finally kicked off Wednesday, two days before the London
Games' official opening ceremony, although the joy of the first day of
sport was tempered by athletics' ruling body saying it had suspended
nine track and field competitors for what it called "sophisticated doping."

LONDON (Reuters) - The equestrian doping scandal at the 2008 Olympics
was a rude awakening for top officials in the sport but it has also led
to tough new regulations they hope will ensure a clean London Games for
horses and riders. "It was an extraordinary wake-up call," Lisa
Lazarus, general counsel for governing body Federation Equestre
Internationale (FEI), told Reuters. Six of the 20 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The expulsion of an American judo player from the London 2012 Olympic
Games on Monday after he tested positive for marijuana prompted
scientists to question the sense behind the drug's inclusion on the
World Anti Doping Agency's (WADA) banned list. Few experts think
marijuana, or cannabis - whether it's eaten or smoked - can do much to
enhance the kind of speed, strength ...

Melbourne,
July 28 (ANI): Americans and Soviets 'fooled' China into using
performance-enhancing drugs, resulting in humiliating scandals and
limited success during the Olympics from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, according to a top Chinese Olympic team doctor.

LONDON (Reuters) - The International Olympics Committee (IOC) said on Saturday that 1001 drugs tests have been conducted since the start of the London 2012 Olympic period on July 16. Of these, 715 were urine tests and 286 were tests on blood. IOC President Jacques Rogge says a crackdown on doping cheats in the run-up to the London Olympics has been a success, with testers catching more than 100 ...

Oscar Pistorius
failed in his bid to reach the Olympic 400 metres final on Sunday when
the South African double-amputee finished last in his semi while it was a
terrible night for the United States in an event they normally
dominate. Pistorius, who races wearing carbon fibre prosthetic
blades after being born without a fibula in both legs, is the first
double-amputee to run in ...

American weightlifter Holley Mangold tips the scales at 346 pounds (157 kilograms) and she is proud of being the heaviest woman at the London Olympics. Mangold,
22, who competed in the women's 75 kilogram-plus division, is one of
growing number of women athletes speaking out at their frustration with
the public scrutiny of their body size and image rather than their
fitness ...

- Roto-Reuters via Yahoo! News

AIBA is a den of thieves filled with nests of vipers. They said the new scoring system would fix everything. They were wrong. They are now promising a new fix. Don't hold your breath, sports fans...

After Olympic
champion Roberto Cammarelle beat Mohammed Arjaoui by the tightest of
margins on Monday, the Moroccan's coach wanted to know one thing: was
one of the judges Italian? Defeated fighters and coaches have groaned
all week about the scoring in tight contests and the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has already sent two officials home and suspended another for ...

Gabby Douglas has given a thumbs up to all the attention from the likes of Little Wayne and Mariah Carey, and said that she will not be changing her hairstyle.

Except for the thing about her
hair, it has all been a blast for her since she won the all-around
gymnastics title.Where's this coming from? Are you kidding me? What's
this about my hair?" the New York Daily News quoted her as saying.

"I gel it up, put some clips in it and put it in a bun. People shouldn't be worried about that," she said.

She says her hairstyle won't change, either, despite the surprising number of complaints and suggestions.

"Might as well get used to it," she said.

Amen to that, sister. Sometimes out of the mouths of babes...

Douglas will wear it the same way
when she competes in individual events, in both the uneven bars on
Monday and the beam on Tuesday.

She will wear it that way because it is practical and because that's the way she likes it.

The same way she is enjoying all the fuss, except for the hair.

"It's a little crazy, everybody coming up and saying, 'Can I have a photo of you?' or 'Look, there's Gabby'," she said.

"It's hectic, but I love it," she added.

What? You don't know what's going on? Take a look at this piece of garbage from Racson Whitless of Fox Sports, the fattest, dumbest, and most racist racist that ever racist a racist...

Hair we go. Gabby Douglas made history Thursday night. And we, black folks, repeated our history of self-hatred.

For the better part of two evenings, while America’s sweetheart led the
U.S. to team gold and then held off two Russians for a historic
individual gold in the prestigious all-around, black folks debated her
hair via social media.

Comedian Chris Rock, the producer of the 2009 documentary Good Hair,
had to be at home cackling and rolling a blunt. Our $9 billion-yearly
obsession with straightening, lengthening, curling, coloring and
Europeanizing our hair was interfering with celebrating Gabby’s total
domination of the Summer Olympics' top sport.

Look, I’m an expert on inappropriate, poorly timed joking tweets, but
this was a child ascending to new heights and, one leap at a time,
elevating the very people ridiculing her.

“For real though nobody wanted to go to London to do Gabby Douglas’ hair.”

“Gabby Douglas is a beast. I wish her mama would do something about her hair though.”

Search “Gabby Douglas and hair” on Twitter and you’ll find all sorts of one-liners.

Some of my non-black readers may not get the seriousness of this issue,
but I swear to you this is an important problem for black folks. Far
too many black women’s self-esteem is tied up in their hair or the
overpriced weave dangling from their heads.

That's the point, moron. It shouldn't be that important. Why do the leftist plantation owners insist on treating their black slaves like they are retarded children? Could it be to make them more docile and manageable? Could it be to keep them in chains?

“I am so passionate about this issue because it is negatively affecting
us black women,” 1996 Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes said. “Many
don’t work out or learn to swim because of their relaxed hair. It’s
something that needs to be talked about because it really is costing us
our health.”

WTF?????????????????

Seriously, many black women choose not to exercise because they fear
sweating will ruin their recently chemically-treated hair. A big part of
First Lady Michelle Obama’s push for physical activity is geared toward
getting African-American girls to embrace exercise.

The folks at Big Soda will be so pleased. It's not over-indulgence in high fructose corn syrup laden drinks that make people fat, it's racial self-loathing that makes people fat.

Two black women, Alexandria Williams and Whitney Patterson, started a
web site, SportyAfros.com, dedicated to educating black girls on how to
exercise and take care of their hair.

Outraged by the comments she read on Twitter and Facebook, Monisha
Randolph wrote a passionate blog post defending Gabby and her hair for
SportyAfros.com. Titled “The Gabby Douglas Hair Controversy Unwrapped,”
the posting went viral and landed SportyAfros in the Washington Post,
among other places.

“The Surgeon General pointed out last year many black women will not
work out because their hair is a hindrance,” Alexandria Williams said to
me in an email.

WTF?????????????????

“Another focus of the site is to tackle the issue of
African-American obesity in America. According to the Office of Minority
Health, four out of five African-American women are overweight or
obese. It is our personal mission to change this statistic by providing
the tools to empower and encourage black women to lead healthy, active
lifestyles.”

It all begins with a healthy perspective on their hair. It’s impossible
to convey how obsessed with hair black women can be. It’s not uncommon
for a black woman to spend several hundred dollars on a hair makeover
and then spend the next several days sleeping upright in bed so as not
to mess up her new ‘do.

All that's missing here is The Blaming Of The Black Men. You know, those lazy, shiftless, child-abandoning criminal dogs who all really want white women but have to settle settle for black chicks with straight hair unless they're athletes or rappers. [Puerto Rican girls are right out.] After white folks [and Asians - their hair is really, really, really straight] it's the fault of black men.

“I advise black women to go natural and stop relaxing your children’s
hair, too,” Dawes explained. “At 35 years old I finally embraced my
natural locks. It was liberating and empowering for me. I wish I would
have done it sooner.”

Dawes said she never worried about her hair when she was competing as a gymnast. There was no time.

What’s weird about the Gabby controversy is that her hair seemed to be
styled in the same fashion as the other contestants. I’m no expert, but
her hair appeared to be pulled straight back and placed in a “bun” in
the back. Many of the complainers on social media teased her for wearing
too much gel.

This perfectly illustrates the problem for black women: They can’t win
no matter what they do with their hair. Gabby Douglas looked like the
cute little girl everyone would want as their daughter or little sister
and she was still the butt of jokes.

Rational people don't care about their hair all that much, regardless of their cultural baggage.

Black folks need to grow the fuck up right now and start worrying about important things - like the dearth of black architects.

What do YOU see in the photos below? I see beautiful women who make me want to do stupid things while trying to impress them. [Any stupid thing they might want me to do whatsoever. Seriously. Anything.]I DO NOT SEE women oppressed by the dominant white culture and it's enforcers, the news media and Hollyweird. I DO NOT SEE women filled with hate for their God-given physical characteristics. [See Missy Franklin's feet. Also here.]I DO NOT SEE women who are repulsive because their hair is curlier than that of most women around me. I DO NOT SEE women enslaved by the hair of their ancestors.If YOU see any of these things, you just might be a dumbass.

My heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in the London games who has behaved decently, honestly, and honorably, whether competitor or coach or official or volunteer or security personnel. You have brought much joy and many thrills to billions of people.

Missy Franklin
is getting lots of attention in London and it has nothing to do with
her historic medal haul at the Aquatics Centre. Well, it has something to do with it.

The 17-year-old rising high school senior told NBC on Monday that her
size 13 feet have been drawing attention from athletes around the
Olympics. Host Michele Beadle joked that she'd put a stop to those
having fun at the expense of Missy's trotters, but Missy, in her typical
bubbly demeanor, said she doesn't mind. In fact, she's proud of her big
feet.

And why wouldn't she be? Those feet helped her win four gold medals
in London and played a part in her becoming America's Olympic
sweetheart. Her dad says they're Missy's "built-in flippers."

Sometimes you see young female athletes with abnormal size become
uncomfortable in their bodies. Missy has none of that. Given how
gracefully she moves in and out of the pool with her 6-foot-1 frame
(remember that Call Me Maybe clip?), it's no wonder.

A nonpartisan election integrity group has sent legal notices to 160
counties across the U.S. that it says have more voters on its
registration rolls than actual live, eligible voters — and thus
represent potential hotbeds for election fraud, the organization told
TheBlaze exclusively.

The Houston-based True the Vote said the counties may be in violation
of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, which mandates
that election officials maintain clean voter rolls by removing people
who have died, moved away or are no longer eligible to vote. True the
Vote is demanding each of the counties show proof of compliance or
they’ll bring civil suit.

The counties in question are spread across 19 states that together
account for 203 electoral college votes, including six current
battleground states. Among the counties are LaSalle, Ill., which True
the Vote identified as having 520 percent voter registration; Jefferson,
Miss. with more than 230 percent; and Hanson, S.D. with 165 percent.

“It’s simply unacceptable for any county to have more voters on its
rolls than people who are alive and eligible to vote,” True the Vote
President Catherine Engelbrecht said in a statement. “Failing to
maintain accurate voter registration records is a flagrant violation of
Section 8 in the NVRA.”

True the Vote identified the county irregularities by matching 2010
Census data to publicly available information from the bipartisan
Election Assistance Commission.

“We are deeply concerned by our discovery of voter rolls across
America that contain substantial numbers of ineligible voters, possibly
resulting in the disenfranchisement of eligible voters and the
subversion of our nation’s electoral process,” the letters to the
counties state.

True the Vote spokesman Logan Churchwell told TheBlaze the notices
were sent last week. He said True the Vote expects the counties to take
proper action to clean their voter rolls well before Election Day in
November.

“We don’t expect these to go ignored,” Churchwell said.

True the Vote filed a joint lawsuit against the state of Indiana with
the conservative foundation Judicial Watch in June, alleging similar
violations of the National Voter Registration Act.

Read more about True the Vote and the importance of election integrity in TheBlaze Magazine‘s September issue.

A stunning collection of 70 facts about the U.S. economy just posted on the web is probably not going to make it into the next campaign ad from the folks at Obama for America. However, you might want to read it.TheBlaze has culled 10 from the list of 70 here:

A stunning amount spent on stupid studies like Why do chimps throw their poop? –
Almost $600,000 of your tax dollars was sent to the folks who studied
chimpanzee poop tossing, plus $198,195 paid to find out if “tweeting”
makes people happy… It’s all HERE.

London, August 6 (ANI): Marilyn Monroe is about to get the biggest " marketing comeback" in history on the 50th anniversary of her death.

- ANI via Yahoo! India News

You kiddies know ol' Fyodor has nothing against hot babes and Marilyn was a certifiable smoke show. It's just that there's a hot babe born every minute. [Well, maybe not quite that many nowadays. With about 400 abortions every minute around the world, the number is probably lower. I know Huge "Tiny & Limp" Hefner has been working on an in-utero hotness test for decades so the uggoes can be weeded out of the gene pool and we'll have nothing but hot blonde blue-eyed chicks in the world...just like Margaret Sanger and Hitler wanted. BTW, can you imagine how many tens of millions of gorgeous Chinese babes have been chopped up and thrown in the trash? This may be the Slave Chinese regime's greatest crime out of all the millions it has perpetrated. Chinese women are soooooooo hot.] It is time to move on, boys.

Fifty years ago Sunday, Norma Jeane Mortenson--the actress, model and singer better known as Marilyn Monroe--died in Los Angeles of a drug overdose. She was just 36. Yahoo contributors were asked to share their memories of Monroe,
whose tragic death, while unsurprising to those that closely followed
her tumultuous career, was nonetheless shocking. Below, recollections
[...]

On the 50-year anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s
death, the last of the 5-part series on the legendary icon by permanent
makeup artist Sally Hayes, reveals what leading beauty experts care
about Marilyn 50 years later and what they don’t. They also share
professional cosmetic advice on how women today can be like her. The
complete Modernizing Marilyn Monroe Series is exclusively found on http ...

New
Delhi, August 6 (ANI): Celebrated Indian designer Ritu Beri has
revealed that her collection, which was showcased on runway at the 13th
Lakme Fashion Week, was inspired by the "Marilyn Monroe of today".

About Me

First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct.
"My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up.
What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.